After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of ...

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans.

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

Tim Andrews is recovering well after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Massachusetts General Hospital is ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human ...